Comments on the Vice Presidential Nomination

[PBrunsel]

"I do not wish to be buried until I am actualy dead."
-Daniel Webster turning down the 1848 Whig Party Vice Presidential Nomination.

"You tell him to go to hell."
-Harry S Truman on hearing President Roosevelt wanted him for vice president.

"My country, in its widom, has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
-John Adams, the first Vice President

"Please accept my sincere sympathy."
-Vice President John Marshal's telegram to Republiocan Vice Presidentialo nominee Calvin Coolidge.

"A fifth wheel to a coach."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"You die, I fly."
-Vice President George Bush on how the only job of a VP is to go to foriegn dignitarie's funerals.

"Ask him [Abraham Lincoln] what I have done wrong to deserve the punishment."
-Major General Benjamin F. Butler declining the 1864 Republican Vice Presidential Nomination.

"How dare you call me that!"
-1988 Presidential Candidate Al Gore to a heckeler who said he would make a realy good vice president.

"It is the very last office in Government that I would like to hold."
-James Buchanan declining the Democratic Vice Presidential nomination in 1852.

"The vice presidency aint worth a pitcher of warm spit."
-John Nance Garner

"An opportunity for the vice president to compare his fossilized life with the fossils of all ages."
-Thomas Marshall on why the VP is an honorary regent of the Smithsonian Institute.

'At the convention all the delegates leave as soon as they nominate a candidate for president for fear one of them will be nominated for vice president."
-A political boss commenting on the 1908 nomination of Vice President.

[TexasGurl]

seems the vice president is currently the one actually running things.
the position has become more powerful over the years.

[dunn]

seems the vice president is currently the one actually running things.
the position has become more powerful over the years.

right

[Gustaf]

"Hubert who?"

LBJ, replying to the suggestion from an aide that he send Hubert (vice president Hubert Humphrey) to attend the funeral of Winston Churchill.

[PBrunsel]

Garner actually compared the Vice-Presidency to "warm piss".

No it was "warm spit." He said to LBJ when in 1960 he asked Garner if he should accept the vice presidency, Garner said, "The vice presidency aint worth a bucket of warm spit."